Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 7,000 ex-newspaper employes in the armed services, including over 1,500 reporters and editors-Editor & Publisher obligingly published the figures-but the Army does not know where they are. The Army knows where lots of other professionals are: with its punched index cards, all the Army has to do is to pour cards into a machine and push a button: out comes a list of ex-cooks, ex-taxi drivers, or ex-engineers, as required. But not newsmen. Their talents had not seemed useful enough for separate classification. The thousands of them already in uniform were...
...retail prices in recent months have been rising at an accelerated pace: between last July and January, they rose 9%, as against 5% for the Department of Labor index of 889 wholesale commodities. This ominous trend is even more evident when compared with wholesale prices exclusive of farm and food products. The index for non-farm commodities (where Henderson's ceilings have been concentrated) has risen only 17% in the entire war period, and rose only 4% in the last six months of 1941. Moreover, Henderson's inflationary $15,000,000,000 has barely begun to be felt...
...come out," she explained later. "It was too bad it was me." Miss Thompson, awaiting her cab, started on her sidewalk neighbor: "My good woman. . . ." The blonde rejoined with a kick to the stomach, got a push in the face. The blonde bit Miss Thompson's right index finger, jumped in a cab and scooted away...
...Bradstreet's wholesale food price index rose another 2? last week to $3.53, highest since 1929. Meanwhile, in an effort to hold down the cost of living, the Department of Agriculture told growers of rice, peanuts and potatoes to plant at least 80% of their acreage allotments this season (for rice: 100%), or take penalty reductions in their benefit payments...
Where would the Germans strike? Where could the Russians hope to hold them? When could they hope to win? In seeking to answer these questions for his boss, Boris Shaposhnikov would have to riffle through the index of his incredible brain, snatch at the most applicable texts and apply them, in their proper seasons, to Russia...